BY Staff | Newark, NJ | 1/21/12
The People’s Organization for Progress (POP) marched and held a speaking program Jan.15 in observance of the 83rd anniversary of the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
BY David Hungerford | Newark, NJ | 5/16/11
On May 15, 2009, Basire Farrell, 30, was mercilessly beaten to death on the street at 2:00 a.m. by five Newark cops. He was dead, murdered, at the scene. Nothing has happened since to the killers because they are cops.
BY David Hungerford | Newark, NJ | 4/29/11
A joint labor-community rally held here April 26 marked a significant step in unity. The Newark Anti-Violence Coalition, the People's Organization for Progress and many of the city's veteran activists spoke and turned out among the crowd of more than 200. Newark is one of the richest cities in the United States in traditions of people's struggle, and it showed.
BY Staff | Newark, NJ | 4/05/11
Around 600 people turned out on April 4 for a March for Jobs, Peace, Equality and Justice initiated by the People’s Organization for Progress.
BY David Hungerford | Trenton, NJ | 4/01/11
People gathered here to rally and hold a press conference, March 29, on the need for uncompensated write-down of overpriced mortgages contracted during the housing bubble, the period after 1997.
BY David Hungerford | Newark | 12/03/10
On Nov. 24 police attacked a rally for community peace sponsored by the Newark Anti-Violence Coalition (NAVC) here. Three days later the people’s forces showed preparedness when they went back on the offensive at a long-scheduled rally against police brutality led by the People’s Organization for Progress.
BY David Hungerford | Newark, NJ | 11/09/10
Activists and community members gather to fight foreclosures, demand that bankers be held accountable.
BY David Hungerford | East Orange, NJ | 7/11/10
On July 6, 2009 Jacqui Graham, 21, was found dead in a cell in the police headquarters here.
BY Staff | Newark, NJ | 6/03/10
The Community Coalition against Foreclosure and Homelessness rallied here, May 22, to demand that effective measures be taken by government to help victims of the housing bubble.
BY David Hungerford | Irvington, NJ | 4/18/10
The People’s Organization for Progress (POP) held a protest at the Irvington, New Jersey branch of Wachovia, a subsidiary of Wells Fargo, April 17. Irvington has been devastated by foreclosures, with many boarded-up houses on every residential block in town.
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